Chris Lamb, chair of the journalism and public relations department at Indiana University-Indianapolis, will have his book, Stolen Dreams: The 1955 Cannon Street All-Stars and Little League Baseball’s Civil War, published on April 1 by the University of Nebraska Press. The book examines racial discrimination, the press, and youth baseball in South Carolina in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Contact Chris with any inquiries.

Joe Saltzman, professor of journalism and communications at the Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism, University of Southern California, published “A 21st-Century Method of Teaching Media Ethics” in Media Ethics, The Magazine Serving Mass Communication Ethics, Fall 2021, Vol. 33, No. 1. In the article, he argues that our practices of teaching media ethics must change with the times. He explains how he uses film in new ways to teach journalism ethics. Saltzman also just published “The 20th-Century Image of the Journalist in Hallmark Films, 2000-2020,” in the IJPC Journal, a study of 360 films showing that there are more positive Black, Asian-American and female journalists in Hallmark films contradicting many of the stereotypes its conservative audience has of the news media.

UNC Press, partnered with Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, has published O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South by Berkley Hudson, associate professor emeritus of the Missouri School of Journalism. With explanatory essays, the book contains more than 190 photographs. Pruitt, a white photographer in the Jim Crow era of Mississippi, photographed a stunning range of Black and white community life, documenting the sublime and horrific. The book serves as a companion for a NEH-sponsored traveling exhibit. The New York Times Sunday Book Review has featured a full-page on the book. Smithsonian.com, and Garden and Gun likewise have run stories.

Will Mari, associate professor at Louisiana State University, has a new article out in Digital Journalism, “(Electronic) Mailing the Editor: Emails, Message Boards and Early Interactive Web Design in the 1990s.” The article explores how design practices, including integrated forums, tabs, indexes and other early site design conventions—sometimes intentional, sometimes not— led to the first generation of online interactions between readers and news workers in the United States, and, to some degree, in the United Kingdom and Canada. Contact Will if you’d like him to send you the PDF.

Kathryn McGarr, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a new article in Journalism: “‘The Right to Voice Your Opinions’: A Historical Case Study in Audience Members’ Emotional Hostility to Radio Journalists.” The article uses listener hate mail to radio reporters during a divisive moment—President Harry Truman’s removal of General Douglas MacArthur from his command in the Korean War in April 1951—to identify a politically rancorous discourse, aimed at the press. This period of high emotion for Americans provides a case study in audience members’ sometimes hostile relationship with journalists and does so at an early moment in the creation of a truly mass national news audience.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Journalism, to which so many of our AEJMC History Division Members have contributed, has now been published! The volumes were edited by Gregory A. Borchard, professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.